Intra Venus

Title: Intra Venus Eau de Parfum

Tagline: A perfume for Hannah Wilke.

Standout Review: "I love Intra Venus. It's such a large jasmine / hyacinth & so beautifully aggressive […] a gorgeous floral perfume." — Victoria Jent of eauMG, via Instagram

Tiny Intro: Photorealistic Hyacinth.

Story Blurb: Piercing wasabi and mastic join jasmine, yarrow, cypress, and hinoki wood to render a stunningly photorealistic hyacinth full of inner complexity and emotive depth in this heartfelt tribute to the perfumer's favorite artist, the late Jewish-American trailblazer Hannah Wilke.

Scent Notes: Ribes Mercaptan, Wasabi, Medicinal Notes, Hinoki Wood, Needleprick Accord, Blue Yarrow, Cyclamen, Mastic, Mate Absolute, Blue Hyacinth Accord, Poison Bulb (Swamp Lily) Accord, Blue Cypress, Cedar Moss

Feeling / Mood: Exhibitionist, Defiant, & Present — like you're letting others in on a secret you can't suppress any longer.

Projection / Wear Style: Unisex. Linear and bright, yet ornamental and exhibitionist all the same — and chock-full of emotional depth. Radiant, persistent, bright, and fresh — like a perfect springtime bloom on a crisp morning, in motion. We won't promise that you will be stopped in public by someone saying you smell good when you wear it. But it's been known to happen.

Customer Reviews:

"Intra Venus has the tight shine of scar tissue, the intense flashes of light of a broken mirror or scalpel dropped into a bowl of antiseptic. It's the white-out vision of pain. The sharpness of a sound at the edge of hearing […] a shimmering narcotic hyacinth with the wet green of broken stems, earth still clinging. It's a floral cocoon. Nothing bad can happen here." — Katie Cooke (@scentosaurs), via forgetting.net

"[…] gives you this beautiful haunting hyacinth which lingers on your skin and around you." — @wearescentient, via Instagram

"Intra Venus has the best hyacinth note I have ever smelled. It's like someone shoved a blooming, dewy, beautiful hyacinth into your face. Stunning!" — Tommy Turza, via Facebook

"This is my favorite (and a fairly photorealistic) interpretation of hyacinth so far […] It's transparent in an icy, glacial way […] And although I do find it satisfyingly thought-provoking, it's not nearly as challenging as I expected from the description. This gets a 9/10 (and many reaches, especially in the summer) from me, and I really do try to reserve the ends of the scale for things that exceed the imagination." — @Crown.of.candles, via Basenotes

"[…] such a gorgeous, realistic hyacinth." — @rmsssss, via CaFleurBon

"[T]his perfume is haunting […] The main note is hyacinth, a note I've always found plasticky […] But then added in are other vegetal notes including yarrow and mate and spicy wasabi. It's spicy, fresh, green and medicinal. The overall effect is like nothing I've ever tried, something that is true of every perfume in this extraordinarily creative line." — @poudre_et_savon, via Instagram

"Intra Venus is such a realistic hyacinth. It has a little bite, a little edge to it - still, the hyacinth is the most prominent note." — u/Wordortwo, via Reddit

Allergen Info & Compliance: Benzyl Salicylate, Hydroxycitronellol, Farnesol, Limonene, Citronellol, Linalool. All allergens originate naturally in essential oils, absolutes, or resins used in the formula. Contains no phthalates, parabens, artificial dyes, BHT/BHA, musk xylene, or polycyclic musks.